Where has the time gone? When I sat down to update this blog, I didn't realize it'd been so long since I'd done any type of posting on here. So much has happened over the months since I last wrote anything here. Where to begin?

I realized June 30th, 2017 was the last time I made a blog entry here. While probably not an excuse that can cover the entire range of time, I can honestly say there's a good reason for a good percentage of it.

So today was again one of my normal day off to do chores, spend time with the wife, the usual. With rare exception, I usually have Thursdays and Sundays off, next week being one of the few where I have both Saturday and Sunday off. Woo hoo! A two day ...

So yesterday was a complete bust and I know why. Normally, I get a 20oz bottle of soda a day when I'm at work. Due to financial obligations this month, I had to stop that practice in order to save up money to pay for something. So except for a ...

So today, I somewhat failed during the time I should have been writing. I, unfortunately, fell down the parallel holes that are YouTube and Facebook. Having my allergies making me groggy didn't help either. Instead of my plan to start writing at 3 am and going until 7 am, I ...

Didn't plan on doing any writing today since it's the second day of the week that I normally either spend time with my wife, or I do all the running around and other chores. Today was a chores day. I wound up having to clean out our hot water tank ...

Just finished up my writing session and I have to say. I'm really getting excited about how well this experiment is going. Enough so that I realized I need to start tracking another metric. How long I'm actually writing for. With my ADHD, I'm still a bit haphazard when it ...

So... I'm beginning to strongly think this idea has lots of merit after all. To preface this, I need to point out I'm having to cut my writing time short today because I have to take my wife somewhere early this morning, so I'm missing out on around at least ...

Ok. I have to admit. I did no writing today. It was my day off and I spent the entire day with the wife, then went to bed early. Not too upset about it since it was a planned day off, but tonight, I plan to hit the writing hard. ...

Well, my plan seems to be working. I wrote what I would consider significantly more today that I did yesterday. The words seemed to flow a lot more smoothly for me as well. Obviously, it's still way too early to tell, but it does give me a flicker of hope ...

So I decided to try something new in regards to my writing. Once of the things that can have a positive effect on being able to reach goals is a process called gamification. Simply put, making a game out of something can increase the likelihood of reaching a goal ...

After looking over the WIP I was working on just before this year's NaNoWriMo (2016), I realized that I'd gotten a lot further into it in my mind than what was actually on paper. I had thought I had gotten to around the halfway point, if not farther. Instead, ...

In the quest to become a better, more rounded writer, I decided to do what many writers before me have recommended. I decided to start reading through a lot of the old classics that usually get assigned for reading all through high school and college.

So National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) has started again. My first foray into this event happened two years ago. I had just lost my mom less than a month earlier and my wife had just left for vacation to be with her family for Thanksgiving, leaving me to dwell ...

Well, I'm unhappy to say it, but I haven't really done anything for my memory training this past week. I can say that of a list of 20 random words I memorized during the middle of week two, I remembered 16 of the 20, and with only one quick review, ...